Joe Biden, Senator from Citibank (oops, DELAWARE), to Run for President

That's enough.

This is what I've said before about Biden's ideological flexibility and how it can be a virtue. I think he's *temperamentally* a moderate, so I don't think he's ever going to suddenly become a raging socialist. But he has a situational mindset and is open to persuasion. Although that's sometimes led him to make bad compromises, it could also lead him to advocate for more progressive policies than one might expect from him at this particular moment, because he recognizes the crisis and is willing to do what it takes to solve it.

I'll also repost this tweet from the general politics thread, because I think it applies to Biden, too.

Hard to overstate how much better today's moderate Dem senators are than those of 2009, especially on stimulus. One reason I'd guess: Everyone's always fighting the last war, and "Obama's tepid recovery gave us Trump" has finally displaced "weakness on inflation gave us Reagan" https://t.co/eN6axte0PG

— Eric Levitz (@EricLevitz) January 19, 2021

Everyone's always fighting the last war, and "Obama's tepid recovery gave us Trump" has finally displaced "weakness on inflation gave us Reagan"

Well uh Obama's skin color gave us Trump. Inflation and "we hate the '60s" gave us Reagan.

But, yeah, it's true: we're in a better spot than in 2009.

Also: "we hate black people" also gave us Reagan.

Any analysis of the ascendancy of Trump that doesn’t center him first and foremost as a reaction against the first Black President is wrong, IMO

exactly

He only built a "political" base by screaming bullshit for years about how the black president was fake.

Biden will recognize Guaido as Venezuela's leader, top diplomat says https://t.co/SGNaGb03ur pic.twitter.com/pf2R3AEAQj

— Reuters (@Reuters) January 19, 2021

lol

hoo boy

Make The CIA Great Again

Thinking we might want to hold off a bit before declaring Biden vastly superior to Obama tbh. Maybe let him take a couple of lumps or have a couple of Republicans whine about the deficit.

oh I'll admit American presidents have execrable foreign policy.

Thinking we might want to hold off a bit before declaring Biden vastly superior to Obama tbh

People like hope. Same reason why Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize just for succeeding Dubya and raising high hopes. I'm willing to see what he does, more especially because my influence over what he does will be indistinguishable from nil.

As promised:

Continuing here:
Joe Biden is (currently) President of the United States